I visit the pool on the Los Alamitos military base, and for a split-second my brain can’t process. A baby floats on the surface.
But before I leap to help, I notice there’s a woman seemingly old enough to be the

An unlikely group has joined the runners and swimmers soaking up the sun at Doheney Beach on Wednesday mornings – these men and women are in their 80s and 90s, and hail from Silverado, a memory-care community in San Juan Capistrano.
Every Wednesday, several Silverado residents, most of whom have either dementia or Alzheimer’s

Over a 50-year marriage in which she had been abused verbally, financially and physically, Doris learned to do what her husband told her.So on a Friday four years ago, when he told her to go to their daughter’s house in Orange County without him, Doris, then 74 and living in Riverside, collected some clothes and put them in the

Despite stereotypes to the contrary, drivers 65 and older are among the safest drivers on the road.They are more likely to wear seat belts and less likely to drink or text while diving compared with any other age group, according to the Insurance Institute for Traffic Safety. Yet they are more likely to die if they are involved in a